VacationSelector

Manchester or Orlando?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ManchesterOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
ManchesterOrlando
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km101
Coast distance27 km68 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 20 points.20
ManchesterOrlando
Score6848
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3521
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 34 points.34
ManchesterOrlando
Score428
Museums within 10 km2311
Museums within 2 km of centre112
Share of museums within 2 km %4818
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 21 points.21
ManchesterOrlando
Score6241
Drinking venues within 4 km1,029344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7763
Nightclubs within 4 km8239
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 8 points.8
ManchesterOrlando
Score3644
Protected land share 50 km %1715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 57 points.57
ManchesterOrlando
Score3289
Tourist attractions within 2 km5
Park area within 2 km63 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km220
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 32 points.32
ManchesterOrlando
Score4816
Notable places within 2 km6110
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manchester leads by 11 points.11
ManchesterOrlando
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 20 points.20
ManchesterOrlando
Score5474
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterOrlando
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
2 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 25 m
€32-127
MCO · 14 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
CancunCUN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Las VegasLAS
10 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Montego BayMBJ
9 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureManchesterOrlando
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation38 m34 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterOrlando
City population547,627334,854
People per km²4,7371,086
Museums within 10 km2811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6330
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.